Success is a matter of release.
Launching July 6, 2026
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A floor-based somatic practice you carry in your pocket. Ten to fifteen minutes a day. The Cat Series plus modifications for every body. The work that got me out of pain after seventeen years of trying everything else. No flexing harder. No grinding through. Just the brain quietly remembering how to let go.
No pie in the sky. Just what works.
The Method
One in five of us suffers from chronic low back pain. Eighty percent will feel it in their lifetime. Chiropractic takes time and money. Pills mask. Alternative care often feels too woo. Most of what's sold as relief keeps you coming back. There's a quieter way that doesn't require trying so hard, and your body already knows it.
Somatics treats brain and body as one system, not two. The mind shapes the brain. The brain shapes the body. Top-down regulation is real, measurable, and it can change the physical structure of your brain right now. The Finger Trap Method is built on the Hanna tradition. Re-teaching the brain how to release the muscles it has quietly forgotten how to relax.
Three protective reflexes, almost no one outside this discipline talks about them. Startle pulls the chest in to protect the front. Trauma curls you sideways after a fall or impact. Landau holds you upright and forward, the muscles that move you forward. They aren't bad. They serve you. The problem starts when they don't switch off.
Trigger a reflex enough times and the brain says got it, I'll handle this. It moves the pattern below conscious control. Now you're walking around in a low-grade brace you can't feel and can't release. Hanna called this Motor Sensory Amnesia. The body forgetting how to let go.
Static stretching actually makes muscles weaker. The Finger Trap Method flips the script. Slow, deliberate, conscious movement teaches the brain to take back control of muscles it had handed off to autopilot. Ten to fifteen minutes on the floor. That's it. No pulling. No pushing through. No flexing harder.
I didn't need seventeen years to get out of pain. It started and ended with me. Bodies that move easier. Standing taller with less effort. Aging without bracing for it. As Thomas Hanna put it: as we grow older, our bodies and our lives should continue to improve, right up until the very end.
The three reflexes the method releases
Holds you upright. Forward. Running toward.
Curls the side. Braces after impact.
Pulls the chest in. Protects the front.
From the practice
“My shoulders haven't hurt since you worked with me.”
“It feels easier to be in my body. Lighter. I can stand up easier and with less effort.”
“It feels more productive than a massage but we still get a lot of pops like chiropractic.”
“Every time I work with Jade I feel relaxed and I'm excited to have an hour dedicated to me, relaxing.”
“The pain I experienced in the past due to scoliosis has greatly diminished. My body feels lighter and more fluid.”
“As we grow older, our bodies, and our lives, should continue to improve, right up until the very end.”
Who teaches this
Hanna somatic educator. Trained at the Novato Institute under the widow of Thomas Hanna himself. Closest you can get to the origin of this work.
I was a career-flexible mover. Foot on my eyebrow, no warm-up. I also spent seventeen years in chronic pain. I tried everything: chiropractic, pills, every flavor of stretch you can imagine. Somatics is what worked.
Now I get to teach it.
— Jade Sobanski
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